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:allied to the Kevel and the Corine of M. F. Cuvier, fAntilope Kevella 

 and Ant. Corimia, Pall.,) scarcely differing from these Gazelles, and es- 

 pecially from the former, except in the colour of its covering. The se- 

 cond is the Chat du Bresil, a Cat which, from its size, its markings, and 

 its geographical situation, would readily be referred to the Ocelot, Felis 

 Pardalis, Linn., were it not probable that several species have been 

 confounded together under that common name. Its colour is consider- 

 ably lighter than the usual appearance of the Ocelot, and its markings, 

 although evincing in parts a tendency to assume the longitudinal direc- 

 tion, are nearly all broken into roses of a comparatively large size. Still, 

 as only one specimen appears to have been yet seen, complete reliance 

 can scarcely be placed upon these differences as evidences of its being a 

 distinct species, and we therefore abstain, for the present, from giving a 

 full description of what may eventually be shewn to be merely a variety. 

 While noticing the Skunk, Mephitis Americana, Cuv., (a variety of 

 which, with the tail black, is here figured,) M. F. Cuvier gives an extract 

 from a communication addressed to him by M. Lesueur, to whom the 

 Menagerie Royale was indebted for the individual represented. M. Le- 

 sueur obtained it when it was not more than a month or six weeks old, in 

 company with another individual of the same family and age. The lat- 

 ter was black, with a white band, commencing narrow at the tip of the 

 nose, acquiring its greatest breadth between the ears, and continuing of 

 the same breadth to between the shoulders, where it divided into two lon- 

 gitudinal stripes extending along the sides to the tail, which was almost 

 entirely white ; the intervening black line being narrow along the mid- 

 dle of the back, and reaching to about one-half of the length of the tail. 

 In the individual figured, the median dorsal black line was much broader, 

 and did not extend beyond the base of the tail, which was black, inter- 

 mixed with a few white hairs, which disappeared at the end of two 

 months, the tip of the tail alone remaining white ; the white lateral 

 stripes were also interrupted by a space of black on the haunches. A third 

 individual possessed by M. Lesueur was perfectly white, except on the 

 limbs, the under surface, and the median dorsal line ; the latter, however, 

 fdid not extend beyond the loins ; and even on the limbs the white was 

 present in the form of a bundle of hairs extending on the anterior from 

 the elbow to the articulation of the metatarsus, and forming on the pos- 

 terior a line occupying the whole length of the hinder part of the leg. 



